skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>b) The "little guy" refers to the Reddit traders that are making a killing right now, with the expectation that eventually the stock price will crash again.

The stock price is completely disconnected from the value of the company. Either this is a bubble that will eventually pop and every small player still holding it will be badly hurt or the bubble doesn't pop, it continually exposes an inherit flaw in our financial system, and who knows what type of drastic and wide-reaching ramifications there could be from that including marketwide collapses.
Can you explain how it's possible to borrow more stock than is outstanding?
Ask HN: Books you plan to read in 2021?
Large positions are most likely sold off in smaller portions as you said. I don't know what the person you are responding to is implying.

Often large positions as a single order are used to create buy or sell walls that can influence sentiment and algorithms to move the price in a way that they desire.
It's not a trilogy though :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revelation_Space_universe#Book...

I particularly recommend his short fiction books if you don't want to get into Dune-lenght series.
Can't comprehend how your sensible, rational post has been downvoted.
And if you double check, their wives have boyfriends
That was the original idea behind HTML.

It might not get rendered the same everywhere depending on the device receiving it.

If the goal was to send pixel perfect pages, the web would have settled on postscript + hyperlinks.
Pretty sure "protecting your property rights" is government infrastructure.
Take Care of the Margins (2018)
> At some point somebody will be left holding the bag, odds are it will be a bunch of people from wallstreetbets

A large part of the culture at WSB is to self-mock as "retards", "autists" and so on; fuckups and losses are celebrated alongside gains. Someone who loses thousands on a bad bet on this will be as celebrated (and mocked) as someone making thousands.
In quiet remote U.P., ham radio helps Michiganders connect from confines of home [pdf]
Another lucky gambler obsessed with money. Why do you bring this up?
iOS Security: Please Upgrade to iOS 14.4 Today
98% of them have no idea what's really going on.
IPv6?

Still will need hole punching but no “IP discovery”.
What that means tangibly varies from business to business.

You might get a cut of the profits in the form of dividends... unless you don't. Plenty of stocks never pay dividends. A lot of companies pay more to charity than to dividends to investors.

Or, you get a vote on company policy at the stockholder's meeting... But if the founders own more than half the stock, that doesn't actually matter. And that's assuming the founders haven't just sold stock with no voting privileges.

If the company files for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, stock owners are entitled to company assets... And almost never see any, because they're last in line behind every other creditor.

So it's unclear what, precisely, the practical weight of "partial ownership in a real business" has in general. In specific, sure; stock could be access to dividends or a meaningful voice in company policy. For a lot of stock, the only real value is "How much will someone else pay me for this piece of the action?"
As fumar said, losing money is the entire point.
Is there an actual quantum computer that is both performance and cost improvement over classic computers that would justify this?
Sorry. That's something that was true in 2.x but not anymore. There used to be UserString, UserList, UserDict classes for serving as base classes. We still have those, but, at least now, we can extend the fundamental classes directly.

They are a bit more convenient than the built-ins.
Because once one site starts needing X px, most users will just keep their browser at least X px wide. At some point X became so close to the monitor's resolution that not maximising the window is just extra work. I'm not happy about having to maximise my browser, but I would be less happy about having to scroll horizontally.

There are definitely some people who just maximise everything out of habit, but I don't think there are enough to have created this trend of ultra-wide webpages.

Thankfully modern webpages being responsive at least somewhat fixes this issue, even if many sites still manage to screw this up.
Both far left and far right regimes have resulted in chaos, murder, and repression.

If you're skeptical that leftism can cause violence, the wikipedia list of recent far-left terrorism groups may convince you otherwise: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-wing_terrorism

And of course, there's the more classical examples: Maoist struggle sessions, the Red Terror, the Cambodian Killing Fields.

Extremism is dangerous. And it's concerning to me that this has become a debatable point.
Such a service does, in fact, exist for cars. https://www.nadaguides.com/cars/articles/pros-and-cons-pre-p...
And replace it with what? Government has overhead and inefficiencies too.
> As if a few hundreds worth of GME stock would matter to a billion dollar hedge fund.

In aggregate I’m sure the hedge funds will be happy to take that money. The thing to be concerned about is the sentiment of that Reddit poster. It’s not wrong and IMO it’s the reason you see such politicization in the West now.

The thing people are failing to understand is that throwing away your money or electing an incompetent leader isn’t “sticking it to the man”. It’s simply giving them more money or a broken system where it’s easier for the dishonest to thrive.
Immigrant to Canada, from the US, here.

Do people in the States not pay for pet insurance?

We sure did go for it in Toronto. Vets seem to charge by the pound (wait, sorry, kilogram, immigrant…). Large dogs seem to come with large medical bills, and we were strongly advised by friends and family to go for pet insurance.

Now, I am not actually sure that pet insurance, versus setting up a dedicated savings account that we sock money into, was the best idea. If anything, we went for it because I am from the States, and I assume any non-trivial medical issue will be cripplingly expensive.
Put a star field or some other background so movement is more obvious.

Some instructions might help or even a highlight on the points allocations at the bottom left.

or did I miss these? probably :D
I would be interested in hearing how you reason to the statement that the "Other car manufacturers customers are different."

As I see it, there are just "car customers." And they are a diverse population, from those who need maximum reliability and economy to those for whom their vehicle is an extension of their need for attention. But as diverse as they are, they form a single set, known in marketing parlance as the "total addressable market."

When you write, "The people who buy Teslas are Tesla fanbois ..." it reminds me when people would say "The people who buy a computer for their home are nerds ..." I expect that both of these statements were solidly true at one point, and then became less and less true over time as the diversity of people who felt the product in question was the right choice increased.

So what I see in Tesla's results, and their history, is that they created a niche product that many people didn't understand the need for. But over time, as more and more have been shipped, more people can see the benefit.

For example, here is a real anecdote. As an anecdote it means nothing of course, but for me it felt significant. My neighbor just bought a model 3. They had been in the camp that these things were a fad, a toy, a ridiculous idea, and "what about the range, and who wants to wait an hour to fill up?" kind of things. But another neighbor has one as well and has had it for a couple of years now. And we all talk and that neighbor was chuckling that they didn't even know the price of gas anymore since they hadn't been to a gas station in over a year! In those discussions, the range of the model 3 was such that they charge at home, and even on very "busy" days never have to plan to stop at a charging station. That is because in "real life" they never drive more than 200 miles in a day, and they never cannot fully recharge over night. Once the lightbulb went on about the reality of this, my other neighbor got their own Model 3.

It was, for me, seeing one of the general pool of customers switch over from "only gas is okay" to "this could work for me." And that was instructive.

Given the volume ramp reported by Tesla, I would not be surprised if this "conversion" experience were happening at an accelerating pace.
What I've been wondering is, why do people think the 125% over-shorted has to expire all at the same time and imminently?

While there isn't 125% available to buy in one go, there is trading happening, HedgeFund2 can be buying and returning their loaned shares this week, HedgeFund3 can be buying and returning theirs next week, HedgeFund4 the week after, and at no point does any group need to buy 125% of available shares all in one go; where does the time limit that causes the squeeze come from?
How about Nasdaq halt trading when they detect unusual trading by industry and company insiders?
> You don't get short interest in 140% of the total shares available from people hedging their holdings

Of course you do. I buy a share. I loan it to you. You sell it short. That buyer pledges it to a third person. Et cetera.
"The stock price is completely disconnected from the value of the company", this goes for most of the stock prices.
How does that even work, though? If I've bought a stock for $200, how could I end up owing more than what I already paid? I feel like I don't understand what situation you're describing.
He already cashed out $14M today, so that's a 280x locked in.
Nice dogfooding!
> How would it be structured?

However you like. The purpose of the software - e.g. communication, business, system control etc - seems more essential than the language or the programming paradigm. Although languages are themselves one software purpose.

It could be like a tree growing upwards, with more and more areas/branches appearing, and in each, early prototypes and later mainstream giants. Some are popular only for a few years, others for decades..
Ouch, please don't cross into personal attack, regardless of how annoying another comment is or you feel it is! We ban accounts that do that. Fortunately your comment history looks like a good one otherwise. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.
Well, are you concerned about any lives, or just lives of the innocent? This plane has killed a lot of terrorists and insurgents, but probably has a pretty good track record of not killing the innocent, since it is almost always used for close air support during an active battle.
This is hilarious. I had a good laugh.
That's like saying that the money supply is $5.2T but the U.S. national debt is $28T, so all the money in the world couldn't pay off the U.S's debt. Technically true, but completely missing the point of how currency circulates.

In reality, when a short covers they buy back the stock and pay back the broker or market maker they borrowed it from. Then the broker or market maker sells it again. Then the short can buy back the same share, over and over again, as long as they can find someone to sell it to them. That "as long as they can find someone to sell it to them" is what's going on here - if everybody HODLs, the stock doesn't circulate, and the shorts have to pay increasing amounts to incentivize other weak hands to sell. But total short interest > 100% doesn't mean anything other than that there are a lot of shorts whose need to cover might blunt some price declines. Unless those particular shorts are right up against their margin limits, they can just hold the short position open until WSB loses interest.
Scott Galloway on GMS
React with hooks offers one decent paradigm for this. I would definitely class it as an area that doesn't yet have a canonical settled solution yet.
Insurance companies do have tools to price compare between facilities. I've used it on my insurance company's website. Manh states have price transparency requirements for cash payers too.

Edit: Why downvote? It's all true.
What if the chatter is just chatter? With this halting policy, Nasdaq can be assisting denial of trading attacks ...
My problem with the default Swing theme, and any theme in Java at the time, was that they were so ridiculously ugly compared to the system default.

It wasn’t exactly easy to make your own theme either. Something that HTML allows without almost without thinking.
Oh, they certainly are, as scientifically documented in "He Who Shrank", by Henry Hasse.
A minimalistic site to confess whatever's on your mind and help others
Please avoid swipes in your comments like "It sounds like you've never studied state machines", "where did you get this?" and "There's no point continuing this argument so let's just leave it here". They invariably land with much more force on the other person than you intend, and this leads to much worse threads. It's easy to understand see how this post would turn into a provocation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Say you managed to remove these costs, what would all those newly unemployed people do?
Researchers who tested blood samples from blood banks in Manaus estimated 66% by the end of the first wave [1]. That rises to 76% by October [2].

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02948-4

[2] https://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6526/288
Any chance that Gamestop Inc will take advantage of the situation to acquire some more profitable business?
Could you help me understand what's today's intellectual climate's view on progress? Why is it quaint/Victorian? Thanks!
Can you be 100% sure that GPT-3 will really understand what you want to query? Or do you have to double check every query before you run it?

As for the latter, it's no automation, it's just a nice "autocomplete" feature.
Some feature request:

* A play/pause button

* I can drag the images the left to reorder them, but it would be nice to be able to drag up and down the segments in the timeline too.
Most of this is misdirection intended to confuse the case around his recent pumping.

Perhaps Chamath had reflected on why a celebrity shouldn't be pumping a derivatives trade on Twitter.
this is a good thread: https://twitter.com/matthewstoller/status/135450879463882342...
Eventually it will come down, yes. But you're the option seller, so you can be assigned anytime. I assume this is a naked call you sold (not covered). So you might be forced to buy shares at a really high price and deliver at $320. The big risk with selling options is early assignment.
The Epic Hunt for One of the Most Wanted Men
CNBC reported that Melvin Capital closed on their GameStop position [1]. So it's basically over, right? Or is there more to it?

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/27/hedge-fund-targeted-by-reddi...
I am not a language expert, but Clojure (inspired by CLOS IIRC) does method resolution based on an arbitrary function that can ask any "is it a duck?" question of the arguments:

https://clojure.org/about/runtime_polymorphism

It's common for code to "choose" which method to call based on the class of the arguments, but it's also common to choose which method based on whether a particular key is in the hashmap, etc.
Whenever a human places a trade, the counterparty is almost always an algorithm or some kind of automated market maker
The main reason why OO languages typically make everything objects is that having only one kind of type greatly simplifies the programming language and the experience of programming in it.

There are only three common languages that are OO with a few non-object types: C++, Objective-C and Java. This feature is universally recognized as a serious wart in all three of them. It creates all sorts of little edge cases that you need to learn to program around.
The "weird libertarian strategy" came about through 20th-century gatekeeping by the AMA to prevent mutual aid societies and unions from paying for medical services, and it makes actual libertarians furious: https://reason.com/2020/04/05/how-doctors-broke-health-care/

In general, the US has a problem where it pretends to love free markets, but when you look under the hood there's horrific regulatory capture and crony capitalism.
> Yet, despite investments that add up to many billions of dollars, none of the major incumbent automakers seems to pose much of a threat to market leader Tesla

It depends where you're talking about. Here are BEV sales figures for Europe (currently the world's biggest plug-in market i.e. BEVs and PHEVs) for December and 2020 in total:

https://ev-sales.blogspot.com/2021/01/europe-december-2020.h...

https://insideevs.com/news/482202/europe-world-biggest-plugi...

In 2020 in Europe the Renault Zoe was the best selling model and Volkwswagen Group was the biggest BEV manufacturer (VW owns 12 automotive brands: https://www.volkswagenag.com/en/brands-and-models.html).

> The reason why consumers still choose Teslas over products like Audi’s eTron

The Audi e-Tron was the best selling BEV in its category in Europe and the best selling BEV overall in markets like Norway:

https://ev-sales.blogspot.com/2021/01/norway-december-2020.h...

Different markets prefer different cars.
No you'll just get assigned and lose $500k.
As long as insurance will pay up for these drugs, this is good. Even if they don't there's a chance this might have a positive effect.
Code isnt law, and shouldnt be. Law is law and it works very well.
People always come first. If the majority decide to do something it should happen. Anyone can participate. Honestly its bizzare that “but dao fork” still comes up years later, its not a complex event.

Anyway, sounds like an interesting experiment for reddit. Im not sure if this is great timing or terrible timing for the announcement given the gme/wsb noise.

Also mark cuban was posting his rarible account, which showed hes been using aave and sushi, seems like we might start seeing some bigger tech names joining in defi.
Necktie tutorial in web-based AR
Since I read Seeing Like a State, I've started to think "charlatan" whenever I hear the word "science". As in "scientific forestry", "climate science" (scientists who study Earth's climate call themselves meteorologists), "scientific racism". Is "computer science" an exception? I'm not game to speculate.

Which actual scientists describe themselves that way? We're physicists, geologists, botanists, psychologists or whatever. When someone says they're a scientist, it suggests that they're not part of any actual scientific discipline, but making a false appeal to authority.
Who cares? Honestly I can't find an interpretation of this that is materially meaningful. Unless he's prepared to start a company that loses value he's not going to go very far as a philanthropist.
Melvin has actually 13 Billion (AUM):
https://aum13f.com/firm/melvin-capital-management-lp ? ? ?

they would be forced to liquidate their other holdings before going bankrupt no?
It could be that someone is manipulating the stock and WSB at the same time, and they only think they are controlling it.
You also have to keep in mind that this work was interesting and it probably helped to keep few rockstart engineers from leaving.
Because an email address scraping bot that can handle "foo at bar dot com" won't ever figure out what base64 is? Srsly?
If your memory card fails, RAW+JPEG isn't going to save you.
> "Signal has default end-to-end encryption. WhatsApp has default end-to-end encryption. Telegram does not."

By default, WhatsApp stores everything unencrypted (encrypted with third party keys) at third party servers, Google’s and Apple’s servers.

By default, Telegram stores everything unencrypted (encrypted with Telegram’s keys) at Telegram’s own servers.

By default, Signal stores everything encrypted at your device with your own keys.
I have a Bolt and a Model 3. The Bolt is a perfectly good car, but nowadays you'd be crazy to buy a Bolt, which is why in this area they are selling brand new for $14K under MSRP.
Point 100% taken on the matter of having the right to repair and procure spare parts. Here in the EU, I hear there is a major push to introduce some meaningful legislation to establish requirement, definitely right direction.

Comparing Samsung with Apple is interesting, because Samsung is very competitive and will come to your door (so to speak) to sell its products, which I respect very deeply. In my country, Samsung official service is top, better than Apple probably. I've been able to go to the service unannounced, ask for a battery replacement, go for a coffee and come get my device back after an hour. For computers, Dell also has a very respectable name, to the point where people will prefer Dell solely because of this. But below that level, chaos really, you have to go and order parts from ebay most of the times.
>“hateful and discriminatory content after repeated warnings.”

banned for posting memes like https://twitter.com/NorthmanTrader/status/135439073542503628...
"We will halt trading if too many wealthy investors are effected."
I don't think most people avoiding an S or X purchase are doing so because they think the exterior is stale and dated. Primarily it would be price, but interior may be playing some role. When compared to luxury vehicles I have seen Tesla's interior criticized in the past. Exterior form less so, but panel gaps yes.
> Game stop is maybe worth 5-40$

What fundamentals make you think that? That's substantially discounted vs revenue.
To the downvoters: posting nasty, misleading memes on Twitter shouldn't warrant a prison sentence of upto 10 years. This will be a test case, not just for the First Amendment, but for the leftists who until now have been able to dodge the issue with the "it's a private company" line.
J&J employees do
I completely agree with you when it comes to UI although the key here is that OOP is syntactic sugar, it shouldn't be the overarching pattern. I think of it as augmenting types, or prototype-based OO.

And when it comes to games, nope; entity patterns with composable behaviours added to dumb objects is far more productive that traditional OOP, as you need many objects with slightly different behaviours/abilities/types. Composition over inheritance is key here.
Something called a Failure To Deliver. Basically you have to pay extra to keep the stock one more day or whatever, and you have to deliver it the next day, or next settlement period.

The fee could be quite punitive, or fairly trivial depending on the market. In some markets failure to deliver would be a very big deal and multiple could lead to some sort of disciplinary action. In other markets they might be commonplace for whatever technical reason, and everyone expects that they will happen, just tries to avoid them because of the fee.

There are various theories that in certain markets everyone fails to deliver all the time and it means that there isn't enough of whatever to meet all the obligations. I can't really comment on how much they make sense.
Nothing problematic.

If they think they can build a better infrastructure, they should. That's the free market.

I bet they can't, worst case Tesla can always buy these charging locations at a discount.
The issues affecting liquidity were systemic - it did not just affect large institutions. And of course financial institutions are entrenched in the economy, that is the entire point of financial institutions. Capitalization requirements were too low and they are now much higher — but that meant bank shareholders on the whole did extremely poorly in the financial crisis. And unclear what you mean “bailout with public money” as direct investments in debt and equity instruments by the treasury in 09 were done on extremely favorable terms and were collectively quite profitable for government shareholders.
Someone has to be around to buy the stock. Stop-loss or not. Once all this implodes, there will be a ton of retail investors left holding the bag.